Plans

OK, so we kinda are lame at the blog thing. For me there are two reasons. One is that mostly I don't really think that people really care what I'm doing. (This is also why I am bad a small talk, "Huh it's raining on your cousin's sisters batmitvah, that's really too bad.") The second thing is that I'm pretty much lazy. It annoys me that I have to brush my teeth every day, c'mon I just did it yesterday. But, I digress. These are things you probably already know about me so I'll get to the new stuff.

A lot of our time lately has been taken up by tracking the production and care of babies. Several of our friends and family members are pregnant or have a bouncing new baby (I don't understand this phrase, seams like they just lay there and squirm a bit but don't bounce. They do like to be bounced though). By several I guess I really mean all but several. We're going to Parker CO tomorrow to meet Baby (should this be capitalized? She is important, and I think they call her Baby, but I'm not sure) Haley Cantwell, mutual friends of ours that have recently bred. Should be fun, they are fun folks and kids are great when they belong to some one else, kinda like powerboats.

My time over at the LFD is slowing down a bit, by my choice. I'm in the Officer Validation Program (or some fancy title like that). Basically it means that I ride Shotgun, no I don't have to call it every time I get on the rig, and am in charge. I set the duties for the rest of the crew, interesting when one of the crew is the Assistant Division Chief, his actual fancy title, he is the highest ranking volunteer. Co-ordinating the ambulance crew, most of which have more experience than I do, organizing the trainings and basically being in charge of the group of 6-8 of us during scenarios. It's pretty stressful and I don't really look forward to it but it's good for me and I'm learning a lot. Hopefully at the end of the quarter I'll have most of the junk done for it so I can go back to sitting in the back and just being a FF.

Emily is getting geared up to have her arm cut off, or just have her torn labrum in her left shoulder fixed, I think it's the latter. Her shoulder just sort of pops out of socket at random times, like sleeping. It's a pretty good heart check when some one wakes up screaming next to you while you're sound asleep. She has been to several specialists and has ended up with probably the best shoulder guy in the state, we live in the part of the state with the upper end of the doctors. She seams happy with him and is gearing up for surgery, over Chinese food she started eating with her right hand. It will be an adventure but shouldn't be too bad.

OK, well, that seams like enough for now. If something exciting happens I'll let you know. Watch out for October, it could be a good one, got the Great American Beer Fest (1800 beers to taste) there is the Weezer concert that Dave is coming to, and maybe a trip to Mexico for, what else, a wedding. So stay tuned listeners for another exciting adventure!

P.S. Mom, Don't get too worried about the distant and negative attitude towards babies. You didn't have one at my age yet either!